In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • Contributors to This Issue

Heather Coleman is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She is currently completing a study of the Russian Baptist movement between 1900 and 1930.

Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is a translator and interpreter of the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and has published widely on 19th-century Russian literature, on the history of literary criticism, and on Russian opera and vocal music. Most recently she is author of The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (1997) and a biography of Modest Musorgskii (1999).

G. M. Hamburg is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include two monographic books: Politics of the Russian Nobility, 1881–1905 (1984); Boris Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828–1866 (1992); and six edited books, most recently Liberty, Equality, and the Market: Essay s by B. N. Chicherin (1998). He has just completed a new translation of Lev Tolstoi’s Hadji Murat, with J. Thomas Sanders, and finds himself midway in writing Boris Chicherin and Classical Liberalism in Russia, 1867–1904.

Austin Jersild is Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University, and currently a Research Scholar in Tbilisi, Georgia, supported by the American Councils for International Education. His articles on Russian expansion into southern and eastern borderlands have appeared in Central Asian Survey, Nationalities Papers, The Russian Review (forthcoming), and the edited volume Russia’s Orient (1997).

Andreas Langenohl is a researcher and lecturer in the Institute for Sociology at Justus Liebig-Universität, Giessen (Germany). His publications include “Die Semantik des Wortnestes grad/gorod im Altrussischen” (1998) and “Erinnerung und Modernisierung: Die Rekonstruktion politischer Kollektivität am Beispiel des Neuen Russland” (forthcoming in 2000). Currently he is working on a new approach to modernization theory and its connection to practices of collective memory.

Malte Rolf studied at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and Voronezh State University. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis on Soviet mass festivals in the Central Black Earth Region and the Kuzbass during the 1920s and 1930s.

Galina S. Rylkova is Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1998. Her article in this journal was written at the Ohio State University, where she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship for two years. She has written articles on Tolstoi, Pil´niak, Nabokov, and Viktor Erofeev. Her current research is concerned with the cultural memory of the Silver Age.

Richard Stites, Professor of History at Georgetown University, is the author of The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860–1930 (1978, 1991) ; Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (1989, 1991); and Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since 1900 (1992). He is now completing “Pleasure and Power in Imperial Russia: Society and the Arts on the Eve of Emancipation.”

...

pdf

Share